A Low-Profile Shared Aperture Antenna for FR1 and FR2 5G Frequency Bands

Marco Simone; Santi Concetto Pavone; Matteo Bruno Lodi; Nicola Curreli; Giacomo Muntoni; Alessandro Fanti; Gino Sorbello; Giuseppe Mazzarella

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3400671

IEEE Access (Jan 2024)

A Low-Profile Shared Aperture Antenna for FR1 and FR2 5G Frequency Bands

Marco Simone,
Santi Concetto Pavone,
Matteo Bruno Lodi,
Nicola Curreli,
Giacomo Muntoni,
Alessandro Fanti,
Gino Sorbello,
Giuseppe Mazzarella

Affiliations

Marco Simone: ORCiD; 1Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Santi Concetto Pavone: ORCiD; 1Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Matteo Bruno Lodi: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Nicola Curreli: ORCiD; Functional Nanosystems Group, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy
Giacomo Muntoni: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Alessandro Fanti: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Gino Sorbello: ORCiD; 1Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Giuseppe Mazzarella: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3400671
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12
pp. 71617 – 71627

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Shared-aperture antennas are attracting a wide interest in last of years, due to their inherent compactness and low-profile layout. More specifically, in this work a shared-aperture antenna for FR1 and FR2 frequency bands is proposed. The difference in size between the radiating elements operating the two frequency bands can be exploited to embed different antennas in the same area. A $4\times 4$ patch array for FR2 is embedded inside a FR1 shaped patch antenna. The antenna system is designed by preserving a low-profile architecture suitable for planar technology. The performance of the antenna system are evaluated for both the bands achieving a 10-dB bandwidth equal to 0.14 GHz (3.8 %) for FR1 and to 2.32 GHz (8.6 %) for FR2. In FR2, a ±30° steering capability along the H plane is shown.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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